{"id":7343,"date":"2012-01-24T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/soccer-boa-morte-signs-for-south-africas-orlando-pirates\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T21:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:08:05","slug":"soccer-boa-morte-signs-for-south-africas-orlando-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-boa-morte-signs-for-south-africas-orlando-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Boa Morte signs for South Africa&#8217;s Orlando Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Jan 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Portugal international Luis Boa<br \/>\nMorte has signed for South African champions Orlando Pirates<br \/>\nwhere he will join former West Ham United team mate Benni<br \/>\nMcCarthy in attack.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The club on Tuesday announced an 18-month deal with the<br \/>\n34-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boa Morte left financially-strapped Greek club Larissa after<br \/>\njust six months in December.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now 34, he played at Portugal&#8217;s Sporting before embarking on<br \/>\na 14-year career in England in 1997 when he joined Arsenal. He<br \/>\nalso played at Southampton, Fulham and West Ham.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pirates play in the upcoming African Champions League but<br \/>\nBoa Morte&#8217;s signing is too late for him to be registered for the<br \/>\ncompetition. The second half of the South African season<br \/>\ncommences on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Mark Gleeson in Libreville; Editing by Mark<br \/>\nMeadows)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Portugal international Luis Boa Morte has signed for South African champions Orlando Pirates where he will join former West Ham United team mate Benni McCarthy in attack. The club on Tuesday announced an 18-month deal with the 34-year-old. Boa Morte left financially-strapped Greek club Larissa after just six months in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}